about me

Welcome – firstly I  just need to clarify – I am not a coach coach. I describe myself as a neuro-affirming and LGBTQIA2S+ affirming mentor and change maker, a qualified counsellor accredited with the BACP. 

So a little about me … my name is Yasmin Shaheen-Zaffar, I am a BACP accredited trauma and relational therapist counsellor. I’m also a strengths based ADHD certified practitioner. 

I am neurodivergent myself and created the Homestead Model™ by combining  my own lived experience of being a late diagnosed neurodivergent individual, partner and parent raising a neurodivergent family. 

But also working professionally with  neurodivergent clients in my therapy practice and being a creative entrepreneur myself (with lots of  creative projects scattered over a lifetime – until I found out I was neurodivergent). 

Until my late diagnosis and developing a deeper understanding of how I relate to the world around me – I spent much of my life living in chaos, shame, financial trauma, discontentment and resentment.

Having now broken this pattern and transformed my own life, I now support other high masking creatives and entrepreneurs thrive in their professional and personal lives.  I am also the creator and founder of brands Polyvagal Teen®, Scribbledeedo®, Neurosloth® and The Hearts Whisper® 

On a personal level I have a special interest in supporting those who want to address shame, becoming unstuck, parenting, body image, mixed faith/ heritage relationships, intergenerational trauma, mother wounds, bereavement through suicide as well as those wanting to live a fulfilled and contented life.